PAPER WITHDRAWN--2509---Skeletons in the Closet: Transitional Justice in the Post-Communist World.

Monika Nalepa will discuss the relationship between negotiated transitions from authoritarian rule and transitional justice. For such negotiations to be successful, the opposition must ensure outgoing autocrats that they will not be punished with transitional justice after they step down from positions of control. But how can these promises be credible, if the opposition has incentives to punish the former autocrats after it is voted into power in democratic elections? ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]